Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talents as an actress and a performer. A record six-time recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth Her roles on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies as well as on TV. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has established a successful career which includes a significant recording and concert career. She frequently performs in world-class places. McDonald was born into a musical family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal training from the Juilliard School of New York. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first person to receive honors for all four categories of acting. Her other credits for theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her role on her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She appears as a special guest on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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